The "trusted client" is upon us. Wes is right on it as usual. First he points to the classic Richard Stallman piece The Right to Read. The key passage in this dystopian short story is: "Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for
possessing a debugger." And then Wes points to this fine print on the Adobe eBook (a new format for publishing books in electronic form) website: " If you are a software programmer, you should note that the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader's security implementation does not allow program debuggers to be executed on the machine while the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader is running." Not quite threatening prison terms yet, but the idea that Stallman's fears are looking a little more reasonable is very scary indeed.
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- jim 12-14-2000 8:15 pm